Houston Woods got a real jolt as he was drinking his morning cup of coffee: A meteorite crashed through his roof and lodged in his bed springs.
At least he thinks it was a meteorite.Specialists at Cumberland Science Museum agree. But they're sending the tennis-ball-size object, which looks like a lump of coal, to the Smithsonian Institution for analysis.
Woods said he and his wife heard a loud explosion Saturday morning. The wayward object had crashed through the roof and bedroom ceiling.
A neighbor who works at the museum said the lump has a thin, black layer common to objects that enter Earth's atmosphere.
"I have no reason to believe this thing isn't a meteorite. If somebody's trying to pull one over on us, they're doing a pretty good job," said Louis Levine, collections manager and program specialist at the science museum.